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MULTICULTURAL MATERIALS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS: AN OVERVIEW Elizabeth Howard, author and Professor Emerita, West Virginia University July 15-16 (Wednesday/Thursday) Dr. Elizabeth Howard will help you evaluate and use materials by and about Afric an Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Parti cipants will receive a reading list in advance. GROUP DYNAMICS FOR LIBRARIANS Sara Fine, Professor, Library Science June 27-July 1; (Monday-Friday) This five-day workshop will explore how groups work (or don't work), how groups make decisions, how groups affect the well being of members, how individuals ca n have an impact in groups, and how working groups affect their organizations. We will relate g roup theory to the operation of the library. We will discuss, simulate, observe , analyze, strategize, and discover how groups influence our working lives in o bvious and subtle ways. POPULAR ADULT FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS: AN UPDATE Mary K. Biagini, Associate Dean, SLIS July 6-7 (Wednesday/Thursday) Dr. Mary K. Biagini, author of A Handbook of Contemporary Fiction for Public Lib raries and Schools Libraries, will provide you with an overview of popular adul t genres you should know if you work with young adults: romances, suspense, ho rror, spy stories , mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, and historical fiction. She wi ll highlight the most popular and well-known authors and their books and identi fy the most important contemporary authors of literary importance. You will re ceive a reading l ist in advance. TEACH SMART: LIBRARY INSTRUCTION FOR THE NINETIES Susan Webreck Alman, Assistant to the Dean, SLIS and Christinger Tomer, Assistan t Professor, DLS July 6-7 (Wednesday/Thursday) Information literacy is a life-long educational goal, but helping students work toward this goal is a challenge for librarians because of the increasing comple xity of the library environment. You will examine issues and trends affecting user education in school, academic, and public libraries serving students of all ages and learn h ow to evaluate user learning styles, accommodate users with diverse learning st yles, develop your own teaching skills, and use the LOEX (Library Orientation E xchange) Clearing house. Topics highlighted include developing information literacy competencies and initiating collaborative teaching strategies with faculty. LIBRARY INSTRUCTION FOR THE EMERGING ELECTRONIC LIBRARY Christinger Tomer, Assistant Professor, DLS, and Susan Webreck Alman, Assistant to the Dean, SLIS July 8-9 (Friday/Saturday) You will learn how to teach patrons to use OPACs and other electronic reference sources, including sources on CD-ROM and commercial online database services, a nd develop strategies for helping students adapt to the emerging electronic inf ormation environm ent. You will also learn how to evaluate relevant software applications, includ ing programs designed to support computer assisted instruction. (May be taken as a continuation of Teach Smart or alone.) PICTURE BOOKS FOR ALL Elizabeth Mahoney, Head, SLIS Library, and Coordinator, Professional Libraries C luster, University Library System July 8-9 (Friday/Saturday) Picture books are not just for the very youngest children any more. Elizabeth M ahoney will provide you with an overview of how picture books have changed over the last decade and what new audiences are now using them. Through examining the books, you wi ll learn about new authors and illustrators, themes and subjects, new artists an d production techniques, emerging formats (especially interactive books), and how these new picture books can be used with very young and older children, ado lescents, and adu lts. THE INTERNET: GETTING STARTED Carrie Gardner, Doctoral Student, DLS; Bill Yurick, Doctoral Student, DIS; and B onnie Black, Project Director, Three Rivers Free-Net, The Carnegie Library of P ittsburgh Three Sections: Section 1: July 11-12 (Monday/Tuesday) Section 2: August 1-2 (Monday/Tuesday) Section 3: August 3-4 (Wednesday/Thursday) If you would like to become an Internet user, this workshop is for you. You wil l learn how an individual or an institution can connect to the Internet, and on ce connected, use three basic services: electronic mail, telnet, and FTP (File Transfer Protoco l). Through "hands-on" practice, you will learn how to send and receive e-mail, use remote login to access online library catalogs and databases, and download data files from remote computers. You will also learn what equipment you need to get started. CHILDREN'S LITERATURE UPDATE Margaret Kimmel, Professor and Chair, DLS July 11-12 (Monday/Tuesday) Dr. Margaret Kimmel will provide you with an update of recent trends in children 's literature and will focus special attention on new and important authors and titles from 1990 to the present. You will receive a reading list in advance. CREATING A LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT THAT FOSTERS CULTURAL DIVERSITY Susan Webreck Alman, Assistant to the Dean, SLIS July 13-14 (Wednesday/Thursday) Librarians who work with youth need a proactive approach to create a library env ironment that fosters a greater acceptance of cultural diversity. Issues of di versity affect many aspects of service, especially collection development and i ntellectual freed om, resource-based teaching, and interactions with students and faculty. You wi ll learn to develop strategies to create a positive library environment. EVALUATING NEW ELECTRONIC REFERENCE SOURCES Fern Brody, Head of Reference Services, Hillman Library, and Amy Knapp, Coordina tor of Library Instruction, University Library System July 13-14 (Wednesday/Thursday) The number of electronic reference sources has exploded, and librarians need to know what is available and what will be most effective in meeting student needs . Fern Brody and Amy Knapp will help you evaluate new online and CD-ROM refere nce sources. You will examine and evaluate full-text electronic sources, multi-media encyclopedi as, OCLC's FirstSearch, and Silver Platter databases. ONLINE AND ON-DISC DATABASE SEARCHING: BEYOND THE BASICS Edie Rasmussen, Associate Professor, DLS July 15-16 (Friday/Saturday) Dr. Edie Rasmussen will demonstrate advanced search strategies for DIALOG and CD -ROM services such as DIALOG ON DISC, Silver Platter, and OCLC's FirstSearch Ca talog, and full-text databases. You will have practice online and on-disc sess ions. UNIX FOR LIBRARIANS Christinger Tomer, Assistant Professor, Library Science July 26-29 (Tuesday-Friday) Over four days, Dr. Christinger Tomer will provide an overview of basic aspects of the UNIX operating system in a library environment, including its nature and structure and its relationship to such distributed file systems as NFS and AFS . Participants w ill learn how to customize the UNIX user environment; how to create and manage f iles; how to use UNIX utilities, various editors, client applications (e.g. the UNIX version of the Gopher client), mail user agents, and X Windows graphical user environments ; and how to process text and/or documents. FOCUS ON TECHNICAL SERVICES: CATALOGING NONPRINT MEDIA Nancy B. Olson, Professor, Mankato State University August 1-5 (Monday-Friday) In this five-day workshop, nationally known Nancy B. Olson will focus on issues of cataloging nonprint media (e.g., microcomputer software, CD-ROMs, video and sound recordings, and other multimedia and interactive media formats). Profess or Olson will emp hasize descriptive cataloging using AACR2, discuss problems of subject access, a nd propose practical solutions for handling materials. Her book, Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials, 3d ed., will be used. USING THE INTERNET: BEYOND THE BASICS Carrie Gardner, Doctoral Student, DLS; Bill Yurick, Doctoral Student, DIS; and B onnie Black, Project Director, Three Rivers Free-Net, The Carnegie Library of P ittsburgh August 5-6 (Friday/Saturday) If you would like to become a more experienced Internet user, this "hands-on" wo rkshop is for you. You will be introduced to tools for resource discovery and information retrieval across the Internet, including Archie, xarchie, Gopher, x gopher, netfind, WAIS, and World Wide Web. Using various interfaces such as lynx and mosaic, you will browse a hypertext representation of Internet resources. GIF images, jpe g moving images, Internet relay chat, and audio data will also be demonstrated. ALL SESSIONS MEET 9:00 A.M. - 12 NOON AND 1:00-5:00 P.M. ON SCHEDULED DAYS. REGISTRATION INFORMATION To register, please return the Enrollment Form with full payment. Please make c heck/money order payable to the "University of Pittsburgh". Participants who desire academic credit for workshops must apply and be admitted to the School as Special Students. Please call for an admission application a nd tuition rates. The University reserves the right to cancel any program that lacks sufficient en rollment and all payments will be refunded. For further information, contact Joyce Mitchell (412) 624-9460. TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING The University of Pittsburgh is conveniently located in Pittsburgh, a center for culture, recreation, and shopping. Pittsburgh, served by major airlines, Grey hound Bus Lines and Amtrak, is 10 miles south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and convenient to Int erstates 70 and 79. Limousine service is available from the airport and takes a pproximately 30 minutes. Local bus service, taxis, and car rentals are availab le. Housing is available in air-conditioned Litchfield Towers, and a block of rooms has been reserved. Single ($26/night) and double ($15/person/night or $30) room s are available. A list of area hotels is also available. University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science Please register me for the following workshops: (If any of your selections are closed, you will be notified.) _______ Multicultural Materials for Children & Young Adults ($100) _______ Group Dynamics for Librarians ($250) _______ Popular Adult Fiction for Young Adults ($100) _______ Teach Smart: Library Instruction for the Nineties ($100) _______ Library Instruction for the Emerging Electronic Library ($100) _______ Picture Books for All ($100) _______ The Internet: Getting Started ($100) Section 1 ___ OR Section 2 ___ OR Section 3 ___ _______ Children's Literature Update ($100) _______ Creating a Library Environment that Fosters Cultural Diversity ($100) _______ Evaluating New Electronic Reference Sources ($100) _______ Online and On-Disc Database Searching ($100) _______ Unix for Librarians ($200) _______ Cataloging Nonprint Media ($250) _______ Using the Internet: Beyond the Basics ($100) Any 3 $100 Workshops: $250.00 Deadlines for registration and payment: One week before start of workshop Mail Enrollment Form and Payment to: Dr. Mary K. Biagini, Associate Dean 505 SLIS Building School of Library and Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 e-mail: joyce.@lis.pitt.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mary K. Biagini Associate Dean and Editor, School Library Media Quarterly School of Library and Information Science University of Pittsburgh 135 N. Bellefield Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15260 Voice: 412-624-5230 Fax: 412-624-5231 e-mail mkb@lis.pitt.edu